St. Joseph's Children's Home plans to build four 12-bed cottages on its Frankfort Avenue campus, possibly starting later this year.

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The St. Joseph Children's Home, based on a 26-acre campus in the 2800 block of Frankfort Avenue in Crescent Hill, plans to develop four 12-bed cottages for young residents.

The home has raised just over half of the estimated $5.2 million cost and hopes to have raised enough to break ground this fall on the residences for wards of the state assigned to the home, said Pam Cotton, St. Joseph's executive director. Construction is expected to take about a year, she said.

The home, perhaps best known for its annual summer picnic, has 36 children 5 to 14 years old who live full time there. Most of them have ...